The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-07-15

WEEKLY COURIER
G. DoASE. Publisher.
JASPER. INDIANA
TOPICS OF THE DAY
eeSts from Everywhere.
Tns surplus money in the United States
treasury d over e<60ao,o0o less than
year ago
GERMAN physicians disagree with DR.
Ma Kensie In the diagnosis Of the Grown
Princes malady.
THE President has professionally accept
Cd an invitation 70 attend the North Car
olina State Fair In October.
LONDON Socialists are arranging for Al
excursion 70 Epping Forest on July 10 Il
raise funds 70 aid the condemned Anarch
cts 1t Chicago.
EUROPE IL waiting anxiously the deter
mination Of the Sultan about signing OF
rejecting the Angio-Turkish treaty In ref
erence 70 Egypt
THE Paris Figaro asserts that the Crown
NJ -
are consulting and planning against Bou.
langerism In France
Ex GOVERNOR Axsox p. MORRILL, died
at Augusta Ne, on the 4th- He was IN
conscious ~ the time Of death, and had
been fur several days
Tux Russian organ published at Brus'
sells informs the world that France can
rely on Russia as against England in the
present Egyptian squabble-
A swEDE named Krebs was locked up
IN Washington on the ID, having ex.
pressed his determination to kill Presi-
dent Cleveland. He Is evidently crazy.
CoNPrRoLLER TRENHOLM says he will
hold the directors OF the broken Fidelity
Bank at Cincinnati to q strict account
ability under the law for the banks debts.
The Fourth was celebrated throughout
the country with the usual medium Of
powder-burning. and the inevitable lists Of
casualties loom up as mementoes Of the
occasion.
ORDERs have been sent from Rome to
Archbishop Corrigan Of New York to ex-
communicate Rev. DR.. McGlynn- and to
publish q decree OF decentralization in
the journals
FRox September u 70 9. inclusive, the
week previous to the Grand Army en-
the blue and the gray will be held IT
Evansville, Ind
OVER one hundred mem bers Of the Brit
fish House Of Commons have prepared .
memorial to President Cleveland as king
that Anglo-American disputes be settled
BY arbitration
SECRETARY WHITNEY entertained all
the employees OF the Navy Department
who accepted his invitation at his country
seat (Grasslands) in the District Of Co
lumbia on the Fourth
II was announced in the British House
Commons on the ID that Turkey mad not
yet signed the observation-disclosures
treaty: also that England would grant no
further postponement
PATRIOTIC and daring citizens OF Port
land Ore, climbed 70 the summitof Mount
Hood and capped the climax Of Fourth OF
July celebrations By a midnight illumina-
ton u, 10 feet above sea level.
MISS JENNIE LAMAR, daughter OF Secre-
3ur - ~ -
cousin, VIM. H Lamar, at her home IN
Macon, Ga. July o. Mr.. and Mrs. Lamar
will reside in Washington, where Mr..
Lamar Is practising law.
AT the close OF the week ended the ID
the Detroits were still leading in the
League base ball series and the St L ouis
Browns in the American Association
Chicago 10 crawling up in the former,
and Baltimore in the latter.
Az action has been instituted BY the
managers Of the American Exhibition In
London 10 restrain the rife shooting done
by the Wild West combination during the
performances. the compliments alleging
that the shooting Is nuisance.
JAcoB sHARPE's health has been grad
ually growing worse since he has been
sentence for bribery. On the 5th his i'll
ness had increased 50 much that he was
unable to leave his bed and his friends
have become alarmed
DURrxo the month OF June. the circula-
ton Of standard SILVER dollars increased
es46s7, and the gold holdings or the
treasury increased e2o7, s96 The increase
Of silver circulation during the year was
el.336, 000 and the increase Ia the gold
holdings during the same time was D7,-
$4,000.
IN honor OF the American National holt
day. flags or all nations were displayed
throughout the City Of Mexico on the 4th,
and the standard OF the Republic was
hoisted at the palace Tho American
residents celebrated by ball and social
reunion at the hall OF the French Phil
harmonic Society.
The payments from the United States
Treasury on account OF pensions. from
the lst 70 the 5th inst. amounted to eio,-
100000 The expenditures 90 far this
month exceed the receipts By over se,O00.-
GO, and there Is every indication that |